Wen, who has been on camera since the ’80s and got her breakthrough role in 1993’s “Joy Luck Club,” is not a comedian, but she certainly has a lighter side and was quite the joker at Comic-Con International over the weekend, photobombing cast members and making crowds laugh throughout events.

But the 51-year-old Chinese American actress does take her role as Agent Melinda May on Marvel’s “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” seriously and is glad to be among the Asian American talent enjoying success in mainstream media.

“I joke a lot… but the strength of these characters do come from someone who has to fight against the adversities, fight against the prejudices, fight against the lack of roles for Asians,” Wen explained. “On the one hand I enjoy joking — that’s my coping mechanism, but ultimately, whenever you tell me I can’t do something, it makes me want to do it even more just to prove you wrong.”

As a badass on the show, both as a woman and an Asian American, the hope is that others follow her lead.

“It’s so vitality important to have Asian American representation on a regular basis as opposed to as just a token or as something of a caricature and a stereotype,” she said. “At this day and age, (television) is such a global medium that it requires to have more Asian representation because we populate quite a lot of the globe.”